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And whereas you taxe me, that I cannot live here without capitall sin; farre is the thought thereof from me: for, here I am regarded as the wife of Pagamino, but at Pisa, you reputed me not worthy your society: because, by the point of the Moone, and the quadratures of Geometrie; the

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John Wallis (1616–1703) published Arithmetica infinitorum, which studied infinite series and infinite products, solved problems of quadratures, and found tangents by use of infinitesimals.

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If we call this second correction C, and the moon's distance from her quadratures Q, we have the value of C  =  ± (90′ × sin Q)/R. [Illustration: Fig. 11]

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

He found the average amount of rain at the perigee about equal to the amount at the apogee, as much at the full as at the change, and no difference at the quadratures.

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

When near opposition the full disc of the planet is visible, but at all other times it is gibbous, and approaches nearest to that of a half-moon when at the quadratures.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

In the quadratures the sun will raise the waters which the moon depresseth and depress the waters which the moon raiseth; and from the difference of their forces the smallest of all tides will follow.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

The proximity of the moon, when at the full, and when it is new, and its distance in the quadratures or quarters, combined with the action of the sun, exhibit a sensible reason why the ocean swells and sinks.

Letter XV-On Attraction Voltaire 1909

That Mars is revolved about the sun is demonstrated from the phases which it shows and the proportion of its apparent diameters; for from its appearing full near conjunction with the sun and gibbous in its quadratures, [4] it is certain that it travels round the sun.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

"Pantagrueline Prognostication," in which, to satisfy the curiosity of all good companions, he had turned over all the archives of the heavens, calculated the quadratures of the moon, hooked out all that has ever been thought by all the Astrophils, Hypernephilists, Anemophylakes,

The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884

But as his method could be strictly accurate only twice a month -- the periods of the first and second quadratures -- his rectifications could be hardly called successful.

All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866